April 20, 2016 at 4:44 p.m.
| Updated April 20, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.
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Associated Press
FILE - In this April 10, 2016 file photo, George Lopez arrives at the 2016 TV Land Icon Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. Lopez, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, Eddie Griffin and Charlie Murphy will be making a series for the BET Network on the behind-the-scenes world of a comedy tour. "Comedy Get Down" is about their concert tour of the same name. BET described the scripted series as a workplace comedy at its core, and it was one of several new projects announced Wednesday, April 20, at a presentation to advertisers. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) - George Lopez, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, Eddie Griffin and Charlie Murphy will be making a series for the BET Network on the behind-the-scenes world of a comedy tour.
"Comedy Get Down" is about their concert tour of the same name. BET described the scripted series as a workplace comedy at its core, and it was one of several new projects announced Wednesday at a presentation to advertisers.
The network hasn't said when the show will be on the air.
Tony Award winners Anika Noni Rose and Ruben Santiago-Hudson will also star in a new drama about a fictional black college, and BET is doing a reality series with Gary Owen, former host of BET's "ComicView."
